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Okay, enough now. Goddamnit. Take your spat about 'who placed words in whose mouth' and 'who's insinuating what' to PM. Get it out of this thread so that those of us who actually want to discuss the original topic can do so.

It might be more difficult playing a survivor, but it's by no means unbalanced, because nothing is stopping survivors from killing bandits and nothing is stopping them from being careful to avoid bandits. If you remove the difficulty of being a survivor, this game will go down the drain faster than a cockroach. I'm against CoD type players, but seriously? Getting mowed down by bandits is part of what makes the experience so awesome. Nerf banditry and you're essentially nerfing away three quarters of the danger. Also, in a real world post-apocalyptic situation, who is going to have it easier? The bandits who shoot everyone to take their loot, or the survivors who band together to survive as a group? Why should it be any different in the game?

This last week I've seen an enormous influx of international players on the ZA1 server, to the point where some ZA players don't get space on the server, and it seems 90% of the international players who visit our server are Russians. This happens even when Russian or European servers have loads of space on them. So, let me get this straight. If those players can play on servers closer to them where they will receive much better pings, and they are taking up spots on a server that I host for the people in MY country, I'm still not allowed to kick them? How is that fair? They have at least 15 servers to choose from in or close to their country, and South Africa only has one. Mine. South Africans don't really have any other options if the server is full, aside from going on international servers where they have to deal with latencies of 250ms upwards. Why can't I kick those 25 Russian players who are taking up the server slots on a server hosted for South Africans? I can understand if their own servers are full, then mine is fair game, but it's often not the case. We have a ping limit of 300 on the server, but most of them seem to slip right under it.

Indeed. I often find Russians logging in or hanging about at the northern airfield and the one near Balota. Never been to the third airstrip, but I'm guessing it isn't as popular as the other two. Few people seem to travel up the eastern coast.

I find that the only other game that gives about as much player freedom as this game is Eve Online. You truly are free to do just about whatever you want, and the metagaming is incredible. Only difference is that Eve Online's repercussions for bad acts are a lot more severe than DayZ's. Prefer DayZ's approach, though. Getting labelled for bad acts removes a lot of freedom from the game.

I agree with the rest of your post, but I don't get how teamplay is discouraged? If anything, it's encouraged. Get two other people in a group, and go raid the northern airfield. It's a lot easier than doing it solo, and working in a group ensures that if things go south for you, you've got people covering your back.

Which is why I'm all for having more zeds in the game. It makes looting a lot more difficult. Right now it's pretty easy for any player to simply run to Balota airfield and get himself some good loot.

This, I absolutely agree with. The people complaining about bandits and clamoring to get them nerfed are the cancer that's trying to kill the mod. As it stands now, the game is perfectly balanced. Nobody needs to be punished for being a survivor or a bandit.

Doesn't matter if you're one of us. If I see you, you're going down too. My turf, my rules. Stay out of my sight, or die.

It's just that it's not fun playing on servers with 200+ pings if there's a local server where you can get pings of 10-100ms. Especially not if the people filling up the local server can go play with much lower pings on their own servers. But yeah, our internet is also pretty bad here. The average household still has either 384kb/s connections, or 1mb connections if they're a bit richer. Very few people have 4mb or 10mb here, seeing as it's horrendously expensive. The country's telecommunications infrastructure is rules by a monopoly, which in turn is pretty much owned and managed by our corrupt government. We only started seeing the introduction of uncapped about a year and a half ago, and even that is pretty bad, seeing as it's shaped to hell and back. Sucks living in a third-world country. :P

Most of their pings are under 250, though. I'm going to try for 230, but I'm just scared that if local players get sudden lag spikes, or check up on other stuff on the internet their side, they get kicked. Our server also used to run perfectly fine up until a few days ago, when it started lagging constantly and often crashing. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the international players, as it only started when their influx started. Is it possible international players are placing a much higher strain on our server? I used to restart the server every 12 hours, just to ensure it doesn't run out of memory, but now it starts lagging like made after every 6-8 hours, and it often crashes during that time.

Can someone please link to the new files? That would be nice.

My cough always disappears when I log off. Was playing the other night, got a cold, played a bit more then disconnected. When I got on again, the cold was gone. Same thing happened last night as well, so I guess it goes away after some time.

This game is exactly what I wanted STALKER to be. I don't think I'll be able to play most games after this. Diablo is sitting there, all forlorn. Only just made it to Act II when I got this game, and I haven't touched D3 since then.

I like walkers, crawlers and hoppers, but everyone just calls them zeds. With the former, if you're on TS, everyone at least knows exactly which type of zombie you're talking about.

It's a major issue on many servers, but not much to be done about it currently. Remember, this is still alpha. Rocket will probably address it somewhere down the line.

And what a lot of people seem to be missing is that players are driven by their own, personal moral compass. Just yesterday, me and a few friends got gunned down by a bandit with an AK. Upon respawning and regrouping, a random new guy comes up to us. We weigh up whether we should trust him, or whether we should simply shoot him in the face. Three of us feel bad for him and feel too guilty to shoot him, so we leave him alive. If you punish people for being immoral, you're going to lock them into certain playstyles.